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Both reforms respond to real and well-evidenced gaps in the current framework. The SRA’s changes after consultation feedback shows it’s listening. But structural change on paper is only half the job.

Now that Andy Burnham has become prime minister, the Public Office (Accountability) Bill, otherwise known as the Hillsborough Law, will receive a real boost of political capital.

We set out our thoughts on the Government’s consultation on the transfer of Anti-money laundering & counter terrorist-Financing (AML) supervision from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) (and other legal regulators) to the FCA in December last year.

With new money laundering regulations expected to come into force as early as late June, compliance professionals across legal, financial services and accounting say their firms are still catching up

What the last six months have shown is that supervision cannot be treated as a background compliance obligation quietly managed somewhere in a firm’s operational processes.